The Juanita Bird Collection of Linn Ware and 20th Century Ceramics

Online-Only Auction, 10 - 15 November 2021

Linn Ware and 20th Century Ceramics
About the Session

"The works of Linn Ware (founded in 1943), and those of its predecessor at the Olifantsfontein site, Ceramic Studio (founded in 1925), bear testimony to the creative vision of a group of women whose original vision set the standard for domestic and decorative pottery in South Africa in the mid-twentieth century. Linn Ware is renowned for the consistent quality of its ceramics, and is almost synonymous with deep, rich and sumptuous green and turquoise glazed wares. These potteries, along with Globe (founded in Pretoria c.1920), paved the way for subsequent potteries in the quest to articulate a contemporary South African pottery canon."

Wendy Gers


Sold for

ZAR 1 525
Lot 78
  • A Linn Ware lemon yellow-glazed vase
  • A Linn Ware lemon yellow-glazed vase
  • A Linn Ware lemon yellow-glazed vase
  • A Linn Ware lemon yellow-glazed vase
  • A Linn Ware lemon yellow-glazed vase
  • A Linn Ware lemon yellow-glazed vase
  • A Linn Ware lemon yellow-glazed vase


Lot Estimate
ZAR 1 200 - 1 500
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 1 525

About this Item

A Linn Ware lemon yellow-glazed vase

with flared tapering sides on a moulded circular base, impressed LW circle mark, 16cm high; and another example, similar, the whole with rhubarb-coloured glaze, apparently unmarked, 15,5cm high

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Provenance

The Juanita Bird Collection, Johannesburg.

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